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Medias treatment of of different subjects is not randomly balanced in the way you assure. Clearly, positions which are more popular with readership require better treatment than less popular ones, and positions which are popular with advertisers have to be treated most respectfully.

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> positions which are popular with advertisers have to be treated most respectfully

Datapoint: the meat, fish and diary industries are provably much wealthier and more powerful than alternative food-related industries and they are known to heavily fund "think tanks", lobbying groups, "social media influences", ads.

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